[Bridge] [PATCH 0/3] macvlan: support for guest vm direct rx/tx

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Nov 27 15:43:58 PST 2009


On Friday 13 November 2009, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Also, macvlan should really being calling netif_receive_skb()
> not going through another queue/softirq cycle.

I've added a patch for this in my experimental queue now.
When I last tried this, I saw a kernel stack overflow
but it seems fine now.

I wonder if we can also return from the macvlan hook with
skb->dev changed to netif_receive_skb rather than calling it
recursively.

	Arnd <><


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